Book Lists for Youth
The Disability Experience
What Happened to You? E CATCHPO
Emma’s Awesome Summer Camp Adventure E CHARLEY
We Want to Go to School!: The Fight for Disability Rights E COCCALE
I Will Dance E FLOOD
Days With Dad E HONG
Monster Hands E KANE
King for a Day E KHAN
My City Speaks E LEBEUF
Moses Goes to a Concert E MILLMAN
It’s So Difficult E NIETOGU
Lucas at the Paralympics E PLOHL
The Art of Miss Chew E POLACCO
Way to Go, Alex! E PULVER
I Talk Like a River E SCOTT
The Deaf Musicians E SEEGER
Listening to the Quiet E SILVA
This is How We Play: A Celebration of Disability and Adaptation E SLICE
Abdul’s Story E THOMPKI
Different Like Me! EP WESLEY
Thukpa for All WELCOME E PRABA
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Trains
Let’s Build a Little Train E RICHARD
Two Little Trains E BROWN
Trouble on the Tracks E MALLAT
A-Train Allen E YOUNGE
And the Train Goes…. E BEE
The Rain Train E DEROO
North Bound E BANDY
I am the Subway E KIM
Freight Train E CREWS
The Night Train E STARK
The Train Home E KIM
Caillou Takes the Train E CAILLOU
Hello, Freight Train BEG E PARKER
Let’s Build a Little Train E RICHARD
All Aboard the Moonlight Train E CROW
Shark Vs. Train E BARTON
The Little Engine: the Original Tale from 1920 E MILLER
Clickety Clack EP SPENCE
Thomas’ 123 Book E THOMAS
Mystery on the Lego Express E LEGO
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Funny
The Terrible Two JMID BARNETT
Anybody Here Seen Frenchie? JMID CONNOR
Frazzled: Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom JMID VIVAT FRAZZLE #1
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street JMID GLASER
The Smartest Kid in the Universe JMID GRABENS
Wink: A Novel JMID HARRELL
Lupe Wong Won’t Dance JMID HIGUERA
Stand Up, Yumi Chung JMID KIM
The Unteachables JMID KORMAN
Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen JMID LENZ
The Willoughbys JMID LOWRY
Dear Sweet Pea JMID MURPHY
The Best Man JMID PECK
The First Rule of Punk JMID PEREZ
It’s the End of the World and I’m in my Bathing Suit JMID REYNOLD
The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter JMID REYNOLD INCREDI #1
Funny Girl: Funniest. Stories. Ever. JMID SHORTST FUNNY
Guys Read: Funny Business JMID SHORTST GUYS #1
Three Times Lucky JMID TURNAGE MODALE #1
A Copycat Conundrum JMID YEE
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Spooky
The Ghosts of Bitterfly Bay JMID AVERLIN
Small Spaces JMID ARDEN SMALL #1
The Night Gardener JMID AUXIER
The Jumbies JMID BAPTIST JUMBIES #1
The Cursed Moon JMID CERVANT
The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street JMID CURRIE
The Girl in the Locked Room JMID HAHN
Screech School JMID KILLICK
Deadman’s Castle JMID LAWRENC
Camp Murderface JMID MITCHEL
Spirit Hunters JMID OH SPIRIT #1
Ghost Squad JMID ORTEGA
Root Magic JMID ROYCE
Where the Woods End JMID SALTER
The Cabinet of Curiosities JMID SHORTST
The Riverman JMID STARMER RIVERMAN #1
Just South of Home JMID STRONG
The Screaming Staircase JMID STROUD LOCKWOO #1
The Ash House JMID WALKER
Nightbooks JMID WHITE
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LGBTQ+
The Ribbon Skirt- A Graphic Novel JC MUKWA
Crushing It JMID BECKER
Murray Out of Water JMID TRACY
Where the Lockwood Grows JMID COLE
A Home for Goddesses and Dogs JMID CONNOR
In the Key of Us JMID LOCKING
Lunar Boy JC WIBOWO
The Otherwoods JMID WINANS
Too Bright to See JMID LUKOFF
George JMID GINO
Almost Flying JMID ARLOW
Beetle & The Hollowbones JC LAYNE
The Best at it JMID PANCHOL
Hurricane Child JMID CALLEN
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgore: The Hammer of Thor JMID RIORDAN MAGNUS #2
The House That Whispers JMID THOMPSO
Different Kinds of Fruit JMID LUKOFF
The Ship We Built JMID BEAN
Deephaven JMID ALDRIDG
Skating on Mars JMID HUNTOON
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All About Emotions
How Do I Feel? A Little Guide to My Emotions TOT HOWDOIF
Big Emotions: Understanding Your Emotions TOT ULYEVA
My First Book of Emotions TOT WONDERH
What’s the Matter, Marlo? E ARNOLD
When Sophie’s Feelings Are Really, Really Hurt E BANG
The Way I Feel E CAIN
Ping E CASTILL
The Love Letter E DENISE
Mixed Feelings E FINCK
Yesterday I Had the Blues E FRAME
Stop and Smell the Cookies E FRAZIER
The Tunnel E HOWDEN
Everyone… E NEAL
Tough Guys (Have Feelings Too) E NEGLEY
The Monster Parade: A Book About Feeling All Your Feelings and Then Watching Them Go E OLEARY
The Feelings Book E PARR
Max’s Box E WRAY
But Why Can’t I? J 152.4 GRAVES 2011
I’m Not Happy J 152.4 GRAVES 2011
The Gray Book: What to Do When You’re Lonely J 152.4 WOOD 2022
Who Feels Scared? J 152.46 GRAVES
The Orange Book: What to Do When You’re Confident J 155.1424 WOOD 2022
The Feelings Book: The Care & Keeping of Your Emotions J 155.433 MADISON
Happy J 155.4124 CHANG 2025
Sad J 155.4124 CHANG 2025
Scared J 155.4124 CHANG 2025
Shy J 155.4124 CHANG 2025
The Gold Book: What to Do When You’re Proud J 155.4124 WOOD 2022
The Green Book: What to Do When You’re Jealous J 155.4124 WOOD 2022
The Pink Book: What to Do When You’re Confused J 155.4124 WOOD 2022
Jealous J 155.41248 CHANG 2025
The White Book: What to Do When You’re Stressed J 155.4182 WOOD 2022
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Percy Jackson Read-Alikes
Greek Myths J CLASSIC GREEK
Heroes in Training: Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom J HOLUB HEROES #1
Little Goddess Girls: Athena & the Magic Land J HOLUB LITTLE #1
It’s All Greek to Me J SCIESZK TIMEWAR #8
Spellbinders: The Not-So-Chosen One JMID AUSEON SPELLBI #1
Maya and the Rising Dark JMID BARRON MAYA #1
Atlantis Rising JMID BARRON ATLANTI #1
The Storm Runner JMID CERVANT STORM #1
Aru Shah and the End of Time JMID CHOKSHI PANDAVA #1
Artemis Fowl JMID COLFER ARTEMIS #1
Girl Giant and the Monkey King JMID HOANG
Skyriders JMID HOLYOKE SKYRIDE #1
Eagle Drums JMID HOPSON
The Last Fallen Star JMID KIM GIFTED #1
Lei and the Fire Goddess JMID MAUNAKE LEI #1
Last Gate of the Emperor JMID MBALIA
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky JMID MBALIA TRISTAN #1
Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls JMID RIVERA CECERIO #1
Impossible Creatures JMID RUNDELL IMPOSSI #1
The Legend of Greg JMID RYLANDE EPIC #1
Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Taking the Blame JMID STOWELL LOKI #2
Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind JMID SUGIURA MOMOARA #1
Healer of the Water Monster JMID YOUNG HEALER #1
Amulet, Book 1: The Stonekeeper JC KIBUISH AMULET #1
5 Worlds, Book 1: The Sand Warrior JC SIEGEL FIVE #1
Greeking Out: Epic Retellings of Classic Greek Myths J 292.13 CURTIS 2023
Sex Ed & Puberty
You-Ology: a puberty guide for every body J 612.661 HOLMES 2022
You Know, Sex: bodies, gender, puberty, and other things! J 372.372 SILVERB 2022
It’s so amazing! : a book about eggs, sperm, birth, babies, and families J 612.6 HARRIS
It’s perfectly normal : changing bodies, growing up, sex, gender, and sexual health J 613.9071 HARRIS 2021
Who has what? : all about girls’ bodies and boys’ bodies J 612.6 HARRIS
You be you! : the kid’s guide to gender, sexuality, and family J 305.3 BRANFMA 2019
It’s not the stork! : a book about girls, boys, babies, bodies, families, and friends J 612.63 HARRIS
Wait, what? : a comic book guide to relationships, bodies, and growing up JC 612.661 CORINNA 2019
Welcome to consent : how to say no, when to say yes, and how to be the boss of your body J 306.7083 STYNES 2023
We need to talk about vaginas J 612.628 RODGERS 2023
On your mark, get set, grow! : a “what’s happening to my body?” book for younger boys J 612.661 MADARAS
Ready, set, grow! : a what’s happening to my body? book for younger girls J 612.661 MADARAS
Welcome to your period! J 612.662 STYNES 2021
The care & keeping of you 2 : the body book for older girls J 613.0424 NATTERS 2013
The baby tree E BLACKAL
Sex positive talks to have with kids : a guide to raising sexually healthy, informed, empowered young people PARENT SEX-ED CARNAGE
Growing up feeling great! : the positive mindset puberty book for boys J 155.432 STAMPER 2022
Does this happen to everyone? : a budding adult’s guide to puberty J 612.661 HELMS
The crucial years : the essential guide to mental health & modern puberty in middle childhood (ages 6-12) PARENT GENERAL ZIEGLER
Will puberty last my whole life? : real answers to real questions from preteens about body changes, sex, and other growing-up stuff PARENT SEX-ED METZGER
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